316
LENIN COLLECTION
5200
RESOLUTION ON THE REPORT OF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF*
JUNE 1, 1920
Secret. To archives. Reference note in case Stalin inquires
Lenin

2381
NOTE TO G. K. ORDZHONIKIDZE
Early June 1920

Comrade Sergo! I am sending you the reports that have been delivered to me. Please return them with your annotations concerning the facts: what is true and what is false.

You do get heated quite a bit on occasion, don't you?

You ought to take on assistants, perhaps, and direct the work more systematically.

I hope you will not take offense at my remarks and will answer frankly what and how you intend to correct and improve.

Greetings! Your Lenin

23104
TELEGRAM TO G. K. ORDZHONIKIDZE
Baku**
JUNE 3, 1920

I have received your
offended letter. You are
regarding
my necessary request as a sign of mistrust, but
I hope that before we meet in person you will abandon this inappropriate tone of offense.

Lenin

* The Commander-in-Chief requested that the Council of Labor and Defense revoke the directive concerning the transfer of the 28th Division from Azerbaijan to the Western Front. Appended to the Commander-in-Chief's report was a telegram from the command of the Caucasus Front, which stated: "Member of the Revolutionary Military Council, Comrade Ordzhonikidze, reports from Baku that the withdrawal from Azerbaijan of even a single battalion is equivalent to reducing to nothing all the successes achieved, and the transfer of the 28th Division will place us before the necessity of abandoning the Baku oil fields."

** Printed from a typewritten copy with an annotation by G. K. Ordzhonikidze in the margin: "The telegram was received by me in the summer of 1920. Ordzhonikidze."

1920
37462 and 5216
TELEGRAM TO I. V. STALIN
Kremenchug*
JUNE 2, 1920

The situation on the Western Front has turned out to be worse than Tukhachevsky and the Commander-in-Chief thought, therefore we must give those divisions you are requesting to that front, and we cannot take more from the Caucasus Front, for there are uprisings there and the situation is extremely alarming. The Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic is occupied with sending you reinforcements from the Crimean divisions, which may give you the opportunity to withdraw two or three of them for the Kiev direction. Do your utmost to pull your units together by all means. Continue the offensive you have begun more energetically. You of course remember that by decision of the Politburo the offensive against the Crimea has been suspended pending new decisions of the Politburo.

Lenin

2023
NOTE TO V. V. VOROVSKIY (STATE PUBLISHING HOUSE) AND THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY
JUNE 4, 1920

The Kyrgyz comrades are asking for assistance in order to obtain a foundry, a printing shop, and paper.

I earnestly request that you receive them and provide them with every possible assistance.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

* Printed from a typewritten copy. At the top of the encrypted telegram is the annotation: "Deliver only personally to Stalin for personal decryption."